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For immediate release: 19 June 2012

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

("TLDH" or the "Company" or the "Group")

Unaudited Interim Results for the period ended 30 April 2012

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM: TLDH.L), the only publicly traded company focused exclusively on acquiring and operating new generic top-level domains ("gTLDs"), today announces its unaudited interim results for the 6 months ended 30 April 2011 (the "Period").

Executive Chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush, commented:

"The Board is excited about the prospects for the development of the Group. The Company's strategy continues to be one of building a portfolio of gTLD applications in its own name and for its clients.

"With clients from Brazil, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the USA, and a varied portfolio of gTLDs, we are the third largest applicant behind Donuts Inc. and Google Inc. We look forward to the first of our gTLDs going live in 2013."

A full copy of the unaudited interim accounts is available at www.tldh.org

Further Information:

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

North America

Antony Van Couvering Tel: + 1 917 406 7126

Beaumont Cornish Limited (Nomad) Tel +44 (0) 20 7628 3396

Roland Cornish

Michael Cornish

XCAP Securities plc (Joint Broker) Tel: +44 (0) 20 3216 2661/2667

Karen Kelly

Halimah Hussain

Daniel Stewart & Company plc (Joint Broker) Tel: +44 (0) 20 7776 6550

Martin Lampshire

gth media relations

Toby Hall /Suzanne Johnson Walsh Tel: +44 (0) 20 3103 3903/2

Or visit the group's website at www.tldh.org

About Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

Top Level Domain Holding is a publicly traded holding company listed on the London AIM market. The company is only publicly traded company exclusively focused on the new top-level domain space. Top-level domains, such as .com, run by VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), and .biz, run by Neustar (NYSE: NSR), are regulated by ICANN. ICANN has announced plans to expand the number of top-level domains. TLDH is making targeted investments in this space, focusing on both infrastructure technologies and specific top-level domains.

About Minds + Machines, http://mindsandmachines.com

Minds + Machines is a registry services provider that works internationally with commercial organisations, cities, not-for-profits and entrepreneurs to secure and operate new web domains, known as top-level domains (TLDs). Minds and Machines LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Top Level Domains Holdings Limited.

CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT

I am very pleased to present the unaudited interim report for the Group for the six-month period ended 30 April 2012.

The Period was again one of substantial further progress by the Group. The window for submitting applications for new gTLDs opened as scheduled on 12 January 2012 and closed after the Period ending on 30 May, a little later than planned by ICANN after a technical glitch affecting ICANN's application system had been identified and then resolved.

During the Period the Company continued to prepare for the launch of gTLDs, including the marketing of our suite of registry solutions for potential applicants. The Group secured a number of high profile geographic domain focused clients ahead of the gTLD application window, all of whose applications were uncontested and, subject to ICANN evaluation, the Board expects to proceed, including:

·; In January the Bavarian State Government exclusively appointed Bayern Connect GmbH (in which the Group has an 80 per cent equity interest) to apply for the dot bayern domain. The Group's revenues will include a share of the domain sales revenue generated by the domain. The population of the State of Bavaria exceeds 12 million;

·; In March, our German-based wholly-owned company Minds and Machines GmbH was exclusively appointed to be the registry operator for dot NRW, on behalf of the German State of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany's most populous region with almost 18 million inhabitants. The cities of Dusseldorf, Cologne, Dortmund and Essen all lie within this region. The technical back end for the dot NRW domain has been sub-contracted by Minds and Machines GmbH to Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH, an experienced domain services company. The Group has an 80 per cent equity interest in dot NRW;

·; Also in March our US-based, wholly-owned subsidiary, Minds and Machines, LLC, was exclusively appointed by the Commissioners of the City of Miami to apply for the dot miami domain. Miami, with a population of over 5.5 million, is a major business hub acting as a gateway between the United States and Latin America. The Group has a 100 per cent equity interest in dot Miami; and

·; In April, our London-based, wholly-owned subsidiary Minds and Machines Limited was exclusively appointed to be the registry operator for dot london, on behalf of London & Partners Limited, the official promotional organisation for London. This contract, won by Minds and Machines Limited after a competitive tender process, is for a minimum seven year period and provides Minds and Machines Limited with a share of revenues. The greater London area has over 14 million inhabitants.

·; Also in April, we applied for the .budapest tld with the exclusive support of the city of Budapest. The greater Budapest area has a population of over 3 million.

Overall the Group was involved with 92 applications in total on behalf of clients, joint venturers, and its own account. In addition to geographical names, the Company's applications included the areas of sports, lifestyles, ecology, entertainment, culture and ethnicity and professions. The Group submitted 5 gTLD geographic applications for or in association with the cities of London, Miami, and Budapest, together with the German States of Bayern and Nordrhein-Westfalen, all with the backing of each city or region's governing body. The Company is providing back-end registry services for 20 applications made by clients of the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Minds + Machines, including .rugby by the International Rugby Board, .basketball with FIBA, the International Basketball Federation and one application as a joint venture in .music. TLDH has submitted 72 gTLD applications on its own behalf. In aggregate, the Group's application fees amounted to US$13,597,500.

Following the Period end, on 13 June 2012 ICANN revealed the identities of all the applications that had been made for new generic top level domains. The Group applied for the third-largest number of applications, after Donuts, Inc. and Google. 22 of the 92 applications made by the Group were uncontested by any another applicant. The applications made by the Group on behalf of itself and its clients and which were uncontested are set out in Table 1 below:

Table 1: Uncontested applications

The applications made by the Group on behalf of itself and its clients and which were contested by one or two competing applicants are set out in Table 2 below:

Table 2: Contested applications; one or two competing applicants

The remainder of the Group's applications had between 3 and 12 competitors, as shown in Table 3:

Table 3: Contested applications: 3 or more competing applicants

As previously reported, no applications were submitted on behalf of the Group's client, India TL Domain Pvt Ltd, in respect of Indian cities including Mumbai and Bangalore. In addition, the Group was not selected to provide registry services to the New York City application for .NYC.

Neustar is providing back-end services for four of TLDH's applications, comprising the 2 IDN applications, as well as .blog and .law.

Applications that are in so-called "contention sets" because they are for strings identical or similar to others are being encouraged by ICANN to work out solutions among themselves to avoid having to enter into auctions. Some applications that do not exactly match other applications may nonetheless be placed into contention sets by ICANN evaluators based on their judgment that the strings applied for are likely to cause confusion.

The Group will vigorously pursue its own applications - and those of its clients - where we believe the greatest value can be achieved for the Group and if appropriate, initiating discussions with competing applicants to avoid unnecessary auctions.

On 12 July 2012, ICANN plans to begin its evaluation process that it expects will run for seven months. ICANN then anticipates the approval of the first new domains in the first quarter of 2013. A further update is expected to be provided by ICANN on its proposed batching programme at its next meeting in Prague.

Operational and financial review

The Group's principal investment is its 100 per cent Interest in Minds + Machines LLC (http://www.mindsandmachines.com).

Minds + Machines LLC, founded in 2008, is a full-service consulting and registry services company that provides a complete suite of registry solutions for new gTLD applicants through its proprietary registry platform, Espresso.

Revenue for the Period was £136,000 (2011: £26,000) with finance revenue totalling £4,000 (2011: £2,000). The main source of income was earned by advising on client gTLD applications.

Administrative expenses totalled £1,365,000 (2011: £509,000). Share options expensed totalled £90,000 (2011: £92,000). The principal additional costs were incurred in hiring of additional staff and legal and professional fees in relation to processing the large number of gTLD applications.

Retained loss for the period attributable to members of the parent Company totalled £1,400,000 (2011: £573,00) for a loss of 0.34 pence (2011: 0.16 pence) per Ordinary share.

The Company still has significant cash resources. During the Period in February 2012, we completed a placing of new ordinary shares in the Company, which raised £9 million before expenses (equivalent to approximately US$14.2 million at that time) to provide additional working capital and enable the Company to further develop its TLD portfolio and business. Cash and cash equivalents at the Period end amounted to approximately £4.3 million. This excludes the application fees made to ICANN of US$13.7 million and any fee refunds which may be due in respect of any withdrawn applications.

Outlook

The Board is excited about the prospects for the development of the Group. The Company's strategy continues to be one of building a portfolio of gTLD applications in its own name and for its clients.

With clients from Brazil, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the USA, and a varied portfolio of gTLDs, we are the third largest applicant behind Donuts Inc. and Google Inc.

We will continue to participate in discussions at ICANN about an equitable and efficient processing of all applications. We are developing our sales channels and our readiness for market, and look forward to some of our gTLDs going live on the Internet in 2013.

Peter Dengate Thrush

Executive Chairman

19 June 2012

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NOTES TO THE INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1. Basis of preparation

The consolidated financial statements has been prepared under the historical cost convention and on a going concern basis and in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards and IFRIC interpretations adopted for use in the European Union ("IFRS") and those parts of the BVI Business Companies Act applicable to companies reporting under IFRS.

The financial information for the period ended 30 April 2012 has not been audited or reviewed in accordance with the International Standard on Review Engagements 2410 issued by the Auditing Practices Board. The figures were prepared using applicable accounting policies and practices consistent with those adopted in the statutory accounts for the period ended 31 October 2011. The figures for the period ended 31 October 2011 have been extracted from these accounts, which have been delivered to the AIM Market operated by the London Stock Exchange, and contained an unqualified audit report.

The financial information contained in this document does not constitute statutory financial statements. In the opinion of the directors the financial information for this period fairly presents the financial position, result of operations and cash flows for this period.

This Interim Financial Report was approved by the Board of Directors on 19 June 2012.

Statement of compliance

These condensed interim financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as adopted by the European Union with the exception of International Accounting Standard ('IAS') 34 - Interim Financial Reporting. Accordingly the interim financial statements do not include all of the information or disclosures required in the annual financial statements.

Basis of consolidation

The consolidated financial statements comprise the financial statements of Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd and its controlled entities. The financial statements of controlled entities are included in the consolidated financial statements from the date control commences until the date control ceases.

The financial statements of subsidiaries are prepared for the same reporting period as the parent company, using consistent accounting policies.

All inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated in full.

Foreign currencies

The functional currency of each entity is determined after consideration of the primary economic environment of the entity. The group's presentational currency is Sterling (£).

2. Loss per share

The calculation of earnings per share is based on the loss after taxation divided by the weighted average number of shares in issue during the period:

As the inclusion of the potential ordinary shares would result in a decrease in the loss per share they are considered to be anti-dilutive and, as such, a diluted loss per share is not included.

3. Share capital

The authorised share capital of the Company and the called up and fully paid amounts at 30 April 2012 were as follows:

£'000

Authorised

Unlimited ordinary shares of no par value each -

4. Share Options and Warrants

Total share options in issue

During the period ended 30 April 2012, the company granted 1.9million options over ordinary shares.

As at 30 April 2012 the unexercised options in issue were:

Total warrants in issue

No options or warrants lapsed or were cancelled during the period to 30 April 2012. 200,000 options and nil warrants were exercised during the period to 30 April 2012 all for cash at 4p per share.

* The terms of these warrants were amended such as the expiry date was extended 12 months to 31 July 2012.

5. Post balance sheet events

There are no Post Balance Sheet Events to disclose.

6. The financial information set out above does not constitute the Group's statutory accounts for the period ended 31 October 2011, but is derived from those accounts. Statutory accounts for the period have been delivered to the shareholders, and the auditors made an unqualified report thereon.

7. A copy of this interim statement is available on the Company's website : www.tldh.org